A motley crew of treasure hunters on the high seas join to carry out a twisted objective : to rob millions of dollars of cash, gold and jewels from a noisy cruise-liner . As they give up their treasure hunt and instead turn to piracy . When the treasure hunters in the Caribbean come across a sunken U-Boat they plan a complex scheme by refloating the WWII German submarine to hold-up the safe from the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, resulting in unexpected consequences. Ahoy for the heist of all time! . The pack is sticking up the Queen Mary! . They stick up the Queen Mary in mid Atlantic . He's an I've-tried-everything guy. She's an I'll-try-anything girl.
The tired plot is plain as well as simple and doesn't make sense , dealing with a group of adventurers who proceed a very large heist using a recovered WW2 German submarine . This is an unusual film to come from the pen of Sci-fi expert Rod Serling who wrote such big hits as ¨Seven Days in May¨ and ¨Planet of Apes¨ . Here Serling settles for pure escapist amusement , without a hidden meaning in sight . Shot on the real Queen Mary , in fact the producers acknowledge wiith gratitude .. the cooperation of the Cunard Steam-Ship Company Limited and the assistance of the Queen Mary's captain , officers and crew and the cooperation of the US Coast Guard Headquarters , Washington D. C. Coast Guard Audo-visual unit Hollywood , and the personnel of the Coast Guard Cutters in Miami and in Long Beach California .
Stars Frank Sinatra as the American Mark Brittain who served on subs in the Pacific and giving an acceptable acting in his ordinary style . Frank was in his best cinematic period in the 50s and 60s , after winning Academy Award as a secondary actor for From here to Eternity (1953) . He continued providing strong and enjoyable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). In the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra became somewhat prolific as a producer , turning out such films as A hole in the head (1959), Three Sergeants (1962) and the memorable Robin and the seven Hoods (1964). Lighter roles alongside "Rat Pack" buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Were lucrative, especially the famed and successful Ocean's Eleven (1960) . On the other hand , he alternated such projects with much more serious offerings, such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), regarded by many critics as Sinatra's finest picture. He made his directorial debut with the World War II picture None But the Brave (1965), which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Colonel Von Ryan (1965) was a box office sensation . In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie's The Naked runner (1967), once again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U. K. and Germany . That same year he starred as a private investigator in Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The detective (1968). He's well accompanied by a good support with plenty of known secondaries such as : the gorgeous Italian Virna Lisi , Anthony Franciosa , Richard Conte , Alf Kjellin , Errol John, Murray Matheson , Reginald Denny , all of them do little more than go through the motions in this dull , boring enterprise . The motion picture was regularly directed by Jack Donohue . He was an usual TV movies director and a television craftsman making a large numer of series : The Odd Couple , Anna and the king , The Brady Bunch , The Sandy Duncan Show , Club Oasis , The Don Knotts Special , Ed Wynn show , Dean Martin Show , The Frank Sinatra Show and occasionally for cinema , such as : Marriage on the Rocks , Watch the Birdie , The Yellow Cab Man , Close-Up , Lucky me and this Assault on a Queen (1966) . Rating : 5/10 , mediocre but passable thanks to the thrilling and spectacular final . Only for Frank Sinatra fans and heist/adventure genre enthusiasts.
The tired plot is plain as well as simple and doesn't make sense , dealing with a group of adventurers who proceed a very large heist using a recovered WW2 German submarine . This is an unusual film to come from the pen of Sci-fi expert Rod Serling who wrote such big hits as ¨Seven Days in May¨ and ¨Planet of Apes¨ . Here Serling settles for pure escapist amusement , without a hidden meaning in sight . Shot on the real Queen Mary , in fact the producers acknowledge wiith gratitude .. the cooperation of the Cunard Steam-Ship Company Limited and the assistance of the Queen Mary's captain , officers and crew and the cooperation of the US Coast Guard Headquarters , Washington D. C. Coast Guard Audo-visual unit Hollywood , and the personnel of the Coast Guard Cutters in Miami and in Long Beach California .
Stars Frank Sinatra as the American Mark Brittain who served on subs in the Pacific and giving an acceptable acting in his ordinary style . Frank was in his best cinematic period in the 50s and 60s , after winning Academy Award as a secondary actor for From here to Eternity (1953) . He continued providing strong and enjoyable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). In the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra became somewhat prolific as a producer , turning out such films as A hole in the head (1959), Three Sergeants (1962) and the memorable Robin and the seven Hoods (1964). Lighter roles alongside "Rat Pack" buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Were lucrative, especially the famed and successful Ocean's Eleven (1960) . On the other hand , he alternated such projects with much more serious offerings, such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), regarded by many critics as Sinatra's finest picture. He made his directorial debut with the World War II picture None But the Brave (1965), which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Colonel Von Ryan (1965) was a box office sensation . In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie's The Naked runner (1967), once again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U. K. and Germany . That same year he starred as a private investigator in Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The detective (1968). He's well accompanied by a good support with plenty of known secondaries such as : the gorgeous Italian Virna Lisi , Anthony Franciosa , Richard Conte , Alf Kjellin , Errol John, Murray Matheson , Reginald Denny , all of them do little more than go through the motions in this dull , boring enterprise . The motion picture was regularly directed by Jack Donohue . He was an usual TV movies director and a television craftsman making a large numer of series : The Odd Couple , Anna and the king , The Brady Bunch , The Sandy Duncan Show , Club Oasis , The Don Knotts Special , Ed Wynn show , Dean Martin Show , The Frank Sinatra Show and occasionally for cinema , such as : Marriage on the Rocks , Watch the Birdie , The Yellow Cab Man , Close-Up , Lucky me and this Assault on a Queen (1966) . Rating : 5/10 , mediocre but passable thanks to the thrilling and spectacular final . Only for Frank Sinatra fans and heist/adventure genre enthusiasts.